Hiring for EdTech platforms, coaching institutes, K-12 schools, test-prep chains and skilling companies across India and the UAE, academic, admissions, content, centre operations and product roles.
Overview
Mars Consultancy recruits for EdTech platforms, coaching institutes, K-12 schools, test-prep chains, upskilling companies and training providers across India and the UAE. We hire academic counsellors and admissions teams, faculty and trainers, curriculum and content specialists, centre heads and programme managers, and the product and technology roles behind a learning platform.
Education hiring in India is really three different hiring problems wearing the same industry label. An Academic Counsellor role is a sales role with an admissions cycle attached. A Subject Matter Expert or Curriculum Designer role is a specialist role that only someone who knows the subject can properly assess. A Centre Head role is a P&L and operations role that happens to sit inside a classroom business. We screen each of these against what the job actually is, not against the word 'education' on a CV.
The sector also carries a trust problem that nobody in it can afford to ignore. Years of inside-sales roles being advertised as 'counsellor' positions, with targets and scripts that were never mentioned at interview, have made good candidates suspicious of the title itself. Briefs that are honest about the target, the calling volume, the working Saturdays and the real CTC split between fixed and variable close far better than briefs that aren't, and they stay closed past the third month.
From requirement briefing to a suitable candidate closing.
For clients in Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai and other Indian cities, and in the UAE.
We are paid by the companies that hire, never by candidates.
The hard part
Inside-sales roles advertised as counselling positions have made experienced candidates wary of the title. Offers drop late when the target, the dialling volume or the fixed-versus-variable CTC split surfaces only at joining. We put the real shape of the role (number, working days, incentive structure) in front of candidates during the first conversation, because the alternative is a signed offer that never joins.
Schools, coaching institutes and test-prep centres hire against session starts and batch launches, not against convenient quarters. A faculty seat unfilled when a batch begins cannot be filled later, the batch either runs short-staffed or does not run. We work backwards from the batch date through notice periods, which for school faculty often means starting the search a full term ahead.
A CV cannot tell you whether a JEE Physics faculty member can actually handle a doubt from a strong student, or whether a Subject Matter Expert writing Class 10 Maths solutions understands the syllabus board by board. Screening filters for qualification, board or exam exposure, teaching medium and the specific grade or level. The subject test itself belongs with your academic panel, and we schedule for it rather than around it.
Teaching is live, responsive and performed. Curriculum and instructional design is written, structured and asynchronous, sequencing, learning outcomes, assessment design, video scripting. Many candidates can do one well and the other badly. We separate the two in the brief and screen accordingly, because a strong classroom teacher placed into a content role usually leaves within two batches.
A trainer delivering in Marathi or Hindi medium, a counsellor handling Gujarati-speaking parents in Borivali, a faculty member teaching an English-medium ICSE cohort. These are hard requirements, not preferences. Regional-medium and vernacular delivery cuts an already thin pool further, so we confirm the teaching or counselling language up front rather than discovering the mismatch in a demo class.
Roles
Use cases
Common shapes of requirement in this sector, and how each one is run. These are illustrative patterns rather than accounts of specific engagements.
Track record
Across India and in the UAE. Our longest record is in the Mumbai region, and these are the belts where we have hired most for this sector. For most roles below management there, travel time decides whether an offer is accepted, so we screen for it.
Talk to the sector deskEdTech platform offices, product and content teams, and corporate training providers.
Western-suburb coaching institutes, K-12 schools and test-prep centres, with a strong multilingual counselling requirement.
Long-established coaching classes and competitive-exam institutes serving the central line.
One of the densest coaching belts in the MMR, plus a growing cluster of K-12 schools.
Coaching centres around Vashi and Nerul, engineering and management institutes, and skilling providers.
Services
Who we hire for
We hire for EdTech platforms and learning apps, coaching and test-prep chains, K-12 schools, colleges and training institutes, skilling and certification providers and corporate training companies, from single-centre operators to multi-city groups.
Discuss a requirementYes. We hire for EdTech platforms, coaching institutes, K-12 schools, test-prep chains, skilling and upskilling companies and corporate training providers, covering admissions and counselling, academic delivery, curriculum and content, centre operations and platform product and technology roles.
That is the point of how we brief. Counsellor and admissions roles in this sector usually carry a target, a calling expectation and a variable CTC component, and candidates have learned to be suspicious of the title. We state the target, working days and the fixed-versus-variable split at the first conversation, so drop-off happens at screening instead of after the offer.
We screen for the verifiable parts (qualification, board or exam exposure, grade or level taught, teaching medium and years in front of a comparable cohort), and then schedule for your academic panel's demo class or written task. The final subject judgement belongs with someone who knows the subject; our job is to make sure only relevant candidates reach that stage.
Yes, provided the search starts early enough. Education hiring runs on session and batch dates rather than quarters, and school faculty commonly serve long notice periods. We plan backwards from the batch date through the notice period, which for academic roles often means beginning a term ahead.
Yes. Teaching or counselling language is treated as a hard requirement, not a preference. We confirm the medium of delivery in the brief and screen for it directly, because vernacular and regional-medium delivery narrows an already thin pool and a mismatch only shows up in the demo class.
Yes, product managers, full stack and mobile developers, UI/UX designers, QA and data analysts for learning platforms. These are screened as technology roles on the stack and product context, with the sector understanding layered on top rather than substituted for it.
Yes, as a volume drive. Pipeline, drive-day coordination and follow-up through to the joining date, with screening quality held steady as the numbers climb, and honest role framing throughout, because in this sector the pipeline collapses between offer and joining rather than at sourcing.
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Tell us the role, the team around it and the deadline. We'll come back within one business day with questions and an honest view of what it will take.
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